Latest / The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine / Nathan Richardson: Salt Creek
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- 0:17It's so far that in a crime. At the time, I'm just being
- 0:26my phone. Today we have Nathan from Salt Creek with us. We're super
- 0:33stoked to ch out with you. Nathan. Salt Creeks one of those bands
- 0:37that one of those tooth and nail bands that I think is one of the
- 0:39more underrated bands on the label currently. I mean, you guys are absolutely
- 0:45incredible and more people should know about you. So that's why we wanted to
- 0:49get you on the podcast. Maybe we can make a couple more fans for
- 0:52you, guys, but we're really stoked to have you. How are you
- 0:54doing today, dude, I'm doing good. Just got off work. I'm
- 0:57still at work, but doing good. Yeah, you're in You're in the
- 1:02screen pretty shop right now, aren't you. Yeah. We have like our
- 1:06offices are partially disconnected. Like there's like the office and then there's a the
- 1:11print shop. So I'm in the office. Everybody's at home. I think
- 1:15our graphic designers still here like goofing around, but that's about it. Are
- 1:22you guys able to basically print all of your merch then, like that's kind
- 1:26of be a kind of nice gig. If you're a screen printer and then
- 1:29you're also in a band. Yeah. Our our shop, so we have
- 1:33like four autos, so we do like like five to ten k shirts a
- 1:37day, and then we do embroidery too, so we we do all our
- 1:42own merch. The only thing is I have been lazy to actually put it
- 1:47online. M I think the only thing is that's up is on a merch
- 1:51now store. But I need to because I mean, we even have people
- 1:55that do fulfillment all day long. So I'm yeah, I'm failing at the
- 2:00arch game for actual assault drink though, so you gotta get any gear man,
- 2:05you really do. Yeah, what you're drinking there is that some tang.
- 2:09No, it's pre workout. I'm a psychopath and just drink pre workout
- 2:15as a drink. It's so you can like put as may scoops as you
- 2:20want, so like I think it only has like a hundred grams or milligrams
- 2:25of caffeine, so it's not it's like a seeda, but like it's a
- 2:29little bit healthier for you. And I'm gonna go work out after this,
- 2:32so it doesn't make you feel like your skin's gonna crawl right off your your
- 2:36your bones. Nah me and this other sales dude at Relentless both used to
- 2:43drink those bang energy drinks and that stuff would just it lit you up.
- 2:46So this stuff is a lot more tame, and I don't know, it's
- 2:50a lot nicer on your body. I think, so. I was.
- 2:53I was really hoping you were actually gonna say it was tang. Dude,
- 2:58I wish it was tang. Is that stuff still a thing? I'm sure
- 3:00it is. All I remember is that orangutang on those commercials? Do you
- 3:05remember those? I have like nostalgia, um, like deep in my soul
- 3:10of that orangutang, like smacking around this like the camera on those commercials.
- 3:15I don't. I don't know why. It's one of those things that just
- 3:16sticks with me. I think as a Nebraskan, I'm supposed to say that
- 3:23kool Aid is a lot better, But I just like orange drinks and I
- 3:27think Tank ripped it in. Uh, kool Aid never got the orange thing
- 3:31down that well. So respectfully, of course, I'm really glad you have
- 3:37an opinion on that that that is an opinion worth having and voicing. Yeah,
- 3:42thank you. If you need to cut that part out of the show,
- 3:45I get it. No, no, that is perfect the that's the
- 3:49content our listeners go for tangover kool Aid. Sorry Nebraskans, But is kool
- 3:55Aida Nebraska company? Yeah, dude, what Hastings, Nebraska. Um,
- 4:02they actually still do a kool Aid days in the summer, so you can
- 4:06go try out like any new flavors there used to be like a lot of
- 4:10I think they used to use are like our like state as like a taste
- 4:15testing or like a I don't know what you call that when you like put
- 4:19out samples. But yeah, we get these weird like dinosaur theme flavors.
- 4:24Back in the day they were sick. But yeah, not as wild anymore.
- 4:28I don't think the company's actually in Nebraska anymore, but started in started
- 4:32in Hastings, so what Yeah, those big corn syrup companies, I guess
- 4:38they you know, they needed to branch out in as many ways as possible,
- 4:41right, dude? Love that powder drink? You know it's it's great,
- 4:46that's wild. Why did I not know that I'm your neighbor to the
- 4:49north, y'all goofing? What do you guys got you got any drinks?
- 4:55I don't know what South? What do we have South Dakota style church and
- 4:59seeds. Yeah, and weird politicians. I don't know, you know that
- 5:04weird politician. That's our governor. She was my Sunday school teacher. Man.
- 5:09We're about to experience that same thing for Nebraska. So well, here
- 5:15for it. You're ready, buckle up. Let's talk Salt Creek, the
- 5:19second best thing that's come out of Nebraska besides kool aid. Let's talk about
- 5:25how you guys started. I mean, it's not that long ago that you
- 5:28guys started as a band, but I'm sure you guys were all doing music
- 5:30prior to then. Yeah, talk a little bit about kind of those beginning
- 5:33years. Yeah, the drummer and I had been in a band called Lighthouses.
- 5:41We toured a good chunk and then after that was kind of like dissolving.
- 5:46Our friend Ransom was like, you guys need to start a band that
- 5:50with this dude named Chase, which is our you know, our vocalist,
- 5:55and yeah, just Ransom kind of spearheaded everything and then he ended up like
- 6:01quitting the band before it even announced and is now also a plug for him.
- 6:10Grand Avenue Tattoo in uh in the Twin Cities is sick. He owns
- 6:15that. But yeah, he started the band and then got us all together
- 6:20and we just kind of kept going with it. And yeah, we're all
- 6:25we were all kind of friends before starting the band, so it was very
- 6:30natural. But he just kind of pushed us into each other. So so
- 6:33when you guys were looking for a lead singer, were you guys looking for
- 6:36a guy that looks like post Malone without the face stats? You know,
- 6:42Chase doesn't like to be called or stated that he looks like post Malone,
- 6:46but dude, he looks like post Malone's. Yeah, he's not gonna get
- 6:49away from it. Um, well, he's gotta get rid of it.
- 6:53He's got to get rid of like, you know, the dirty mullet if
- 6:55you if he wants to, if he wants to separate himself from post Malone,
- 7:00he's got He's got a good look though. You got that guy.
- 7:02He's a good looking boy. Yeah. But and honestly, like, have
- 7:06you heard post Malone liked grunge type music? Like they're not all that different
- 7:12of singers too. It's amazing, it's amazing. Had Like some of country
- 7:16covers are like what how does this guy do this? Yeah? And Chase
- 7:19also has a country solo project. So they are living you know, parallel
- 7:27lives totally quite literally. All right, So you guys started, uh you
- 7:31know when when you guys were pretty young, At what point did you kind
- 7:35of get to this sense like, oh, this is like a thing that
- 7:39we're gonna do and uh, you know, hopefully maybe we can get signed
- 7:43one day. Like was there ever a point where you guys realize like that
- 7:46could be a thing that would happened in your career. Um? Yeah,
- 7:49I feel like right away we were traveling and touring a lot. Our first
- 7:54show was out of state. We just kind of went one hundred percent when
- 7:59we start did and just hope for the best. But yeah, we uh,
- 8:03we didn't really have any game plan of getting signed. Um, like
- 8:07we there have been like labels that talked to us kind of you know from
- 8:13the beginning that were hecklers, and we're just like dude, like, you
- 8:18know, if if it's right, sick, But you know, we uh,
- 8:22I don't know, we kind of had a game plan already. I
- 8:26was self employed already, so I kind of knew like what it would take
- 8:33and then like what you know, we needed it to do to make it,
- 8:37you know, something happen, but you know it's kind of serious right
- 8:41away. But yeah, I mean you get you guys like really hit it
- 8:46off quick. I mean it seemed like it was like almost right away,
- 8:50you guys were like catching pretty good steam. I'm curious how Tooth and Nail
- 8:54came in the picture in particular, um to the Nail it it was kind
- 9:01of a little bit. Uh, our our friends Tiger Wine, UM,
- 9:05which our guitar player is actually recording a new record right now. MS dude
- 9:11their new shit. It's it's great. I I'm I don't know their biggest
- 9:16fan, but uh yeah, we go way back with those dudes. But
- 9:22uh yeah, we talked to them. They really liked working with Tooth and
- 9:26Nail. And then uh yeah, just kind of our management was talking at
- 9:33that time, our management was talking with another band about signing with Tooth and
- 9:37Nail. I think something fell through and then they're like, hey, like
- 9:41we also have you know, uh this other band, and Adam was like,
- 9:45oh, I've heard of them and I like that band. Let's and
- 9:48we were we had like an EP that we had worked on. So like
- 9:52our our manager at the time just sent their stuff and uh they liked it,
- 9:56so you know it worked out. Dude, that's sick. That doesn't
- 10:01happen often. I can't imagine. I mean, like just knowing that you
- 10:05have that kind of talent, that kind of sound right away, that's just
- 10:09immediately marketable to um, you know, not only audiences but also the record
- 10:13labels. It's got to feel very you know, you know, confident in
- 10:18yours. Just got to be a lot of confidence in yourself. You know,
- 10:22I'm definitely lucky to have a very good crew and we we just were
- 10:28very fortunate. Yeah, So I'm curious, like with that Tooth and Nail
- 10:35signing. They're a lot of the like newer bands that we we've chatted with,
- 10:41they had grown up with Tooth and Nail. You know, at that
- 10:43point Tooth and Nail had, you know, when we were all growing up,
- 10:46Tooth and Nail had become a really big label in a lot of ways,
- 10:48you know, with the nineties punk stuff and then you have the metal
- 10:52um metal stuff and even some of the emo stuff in the two thousands.
- 10:56UM that really made the label quite successful. And so that's why we know
- 11:01about it. Did you guys grow up with Tooth and Nail? Was that
- 11:05like a label that you guys maybe had some fondness over or had grown up
- 11:09with where you were like, wait, this is kind of a dream come
- 11:11true. This is a label that we had grown up listening to, and
- 11:13now we have the opportunity to be with them. Um. Not really,
- 11:16I feel like I knew who they were. I was really into new metal
- 11:24and still very much into like hard rock, and you know, I listened
- 11:31to more of the Bridge Nine, like post hardcore hardcore stuff, and then
- 11:35listened to new metal and kind of missed out on the Christian post hardcore.
- 11:41Other than I went to church and this one guy did a sermon on youth
- 11:48group and showed the under Oath like documentary, and so I was like,
- 11:52oh, like what's this? And I got a couple other records off of
- 11:58I think it was like called what Scene it was download site and stole a
- 12:01bunch of the Tooth and Nail catalog. I still don't think I've actually paid
- 12:05for a Tooth and Nail record, um, other than I think we paid
- 12:09for, you know, some of our vinyl, but other than Blood,
- 12:13Sweat and Tears, you know, for your record. Yeah. I don't
- 12:16know if Adam's going to hear this, but you know, I just stole
- 12:20all their music, and uh, I don't plan on paying for any other
- 12:24other records, so you know, I guess I do with streaming, but
- 12:28yeah, I just stole their catalog and you know, liked a lot of
- 12:31the bands right away, and uh, you know, listen to shit on
- 12:35MySpace, So that's the way to do it. Do you remember a little
- 12:39website called pure Volume dude, Yeah, same time. Yeah, I used
- 12:46to scroll that and get the just download anything that said free download, I
- 12:52clean on it or whatever, and yeah, I think that was that had
- 12:56to have been like the openings, like the gates opening for so many people
- 13:03to that that kind of scene. And I feel like you guys, you
- 13:05know, not maybe not just you, maybe the rest of the band as
- 13:07well, we're kind of in that scene to start with, maybe like some
- 13:11emo, maybe some some hardcore, maybe some some metalcore and stuff like that.
- 13:16I catch influences here and there and everywhere. Obviously you guys kind of
- 13:20have like a in my opinion, I would call you like a like a
- 13:24post grunge emo. Yeah, that's what I would call you now. So
- 13:28I feel like you have to have been drawing from some influences like that.
- 13:31Yeah, I definitely think we're kind of in that world. But also I'm
- 13:37curious. Maybe we should talk about this afterwards, but there's probably so many
- 13:43cringe South Dakota Nebraska bands that we both correlate on. But we'll have to
- 13:48we'll have to do that list not when people are listening, because there's probably
- 13:52some stuff I want to shit talk more than I want to praise. But
- 13:58are you guys from Watertown? We are? Yeah? Do you remember like
- 14:01the jeff you did your research? Man? No one ever knows what?
- 14:05Dude? I facebookd y'all and I was like, who are these guys?
- 14:07Because I didn't want to be I didn't want to come unprepared. Do you
- 14:11remember like Jefferson South Dakota shows and no, oh man, there was like,
- 14:16uh like four today and a lot of that crew used to play Jefferson's
- 14:22near Sioux City? Right, what's up jeff Jefferson's near Sioux City. Yeah,
- 14:28but yeah, that was like such a weird and cool anomaly. I
- 14:31guess you guys are is that four hours north of it? So yeah,
- 14:35that's about three and a half four hours north, So like, yeah,
- 14:37we were like if we went to shows. They were typically pretty local or
- 14:41Sioux Falls, which is north of Sioux City there. Yeah, like Cullen
- 14:46and I went to Life Light every year, do you remember, yeah,
- 14:48which yeah, yeah, that's that's like a big you know, gateway drug
- 14:52too, you know heavy music as well. I always played in bands that,
- 14:58uh played Life Light, but I never played Life Like. I just
- 15:01would either stop playing in the band or there's some reason. I don't know,
- 15:07but anti Christian festival motto, h dude, I still print per Lifelight.
- 15:13I don't know if they've been doing anything lately, but I don't know
- 15:18if the festival is happening anymore. Like the organization still exists, but I
- 15:20don't think they do the festival anymore. Yeah, I know they did like
- 15:24a traveling one, but that I think that's been two years. I ought
- 15:28to reach out and be like, what are you guys doing now? I
- 15:30know one of the guys had like a barbecue company, but yeah, rest
- 15:33in peace man. That thing was cool. Oh it's great, and he
- 15:37got it was huge for a while. I mean I still remember, like,
- 15:39you know, if it had like switch Foot or Newsboys as a as
- 15:43a headliner, they would get two hundred and fifty thousand people over the weekend.
- 15:48That's a massive freaking festival. Dude. Anytime I can see Family Force
- 15:52five and see some fucking motorcross bikes jump over the stage, dude, I'm
- 16:00oh, that's it. You're sold and it's free. You could just walk
- 16:03in. That's great. Yeah. Also, what are those Family Force five
- 16:07guys doing these days? That ship was so corny, but also like I
- 16:14loved it so much. Yeah, you're not the only one, man,
- 16:18I'm gonna I'm gonna find them on Honestly, I I've always made I've made
- 16:22the argument that Family Force five it was one of the few Christian bands that
- 16:26actually invented a genre that actually became bigger in the mainstream, like krunk core.
- 16:33Krunk core was the thing that they created. There were really, dude,
- 16:37there was no other krunk core band out there. They were the kids
- 16:41bop version of krunk core. Like, let's be real, but they made
- 16:45it so popular. There was that Never Shout Never guy that was doing the
- 16:49krunk core thing or whatever that that all came out after after Family Force five.
- 16:56Yes, that album, Yes, Never Shouting Ever. It's three like
- 17:00three h three like that whole band. All of those came after Family Forced
- 17:04Five's first album. You're probably right, but also I don't want to give
- 17:10that to them. Hey, I've made I've made the argument too that you
- 17:17could make a you can make a case that Pod invented new metal. Yo.
- 17:22Pod had an album that came out before Corn did. Yeah, that's
- 17:29too. Yeah, those guys are old as shit, I think, is
- 17:32what you're saying. But also, h do you want to give that to
- 17:36Pod? Yeah? I do. I fuck with Pod, like I all.
- 17:40Yeah, I don't know if there's like an amount that I can cuss
- 17:42on this, but I I love Pod, that's all. I don't know
- 17:48what those guys do anymore. I know they tour, they're still making music
- 17:52with them, but that's all I got. I love Pod. Yeah,
- 17:56Satellite record like you know, they have that dude from Brains on it,
- 18:00like Howard Benson did it. Yeah, dude game on it, rips all
- 18:06the way through. Yeah, all right, let's go back to Salt Creek
- 18:08though. So Salt Creek a couple of epeas record in twenty twenty one.
- 18:15You guys have been a band for what like eight years now total, I
- 18:18think five or six But I did you guys start in like twenty and sixteen?
- 18:25Maybe it was fourteen. I'll google it and see what's up. I
- 18:29have to look at our face. Spotify says twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen.
- 18:33Okay, so I want what you say about that, but it's it's got
- 18:36to feel like, um, it's got to feel like like kind of like
- 18:38a whirlwind. I mean, there's not a lot of Nebraska bands that do
- 18:42this kind of thing, right, not really. There's a there's a couple.
- 18:47I'm looking at our I'm like, when did we start? I know
- 18:51there is a demo? Is a demo off? I hope it's off of
- 18:53our Twenty sixteen is when we put it out. Um, so six years,
- 18:57six years. There's a band from Linking called Social Cinema that's gigging a
- 19:03lot there. I think they honestly tour harder than us. And then there's
- 19:07a I mean, Omaha has had their folk indie breakthroughs, but I don't
- 19:14know in the hard rock realm, there's a couple bands. But yeah,
- 19:18it's it's kind of an anomaly for Nebraska. But I also think if a
- 19:25band happened in Nebraska, there would be more bands in Nebraska. So yeah,
- 19:30I don't give a shit if it's my band. To be transparent,
- 19:33I just want a band from Nebraska to pop off so other bands from Nebraska
- 19:38get more recognition. But it is weird that Bright Eyes was one of those
- 19:41bands that, I mean, just out of all the bands in the world
- 19:45that could become a big Nebraska band, the sound of Bright Eyes being that
- 19:51kind of band that's so weird to me. Yeah, I mean it's sick
- 19:56that like desper Citos and like like Cursive happened, and like the Faint,
- 20:00like the whole style of Creek thing is sick. But yeah, it is
- 20:03weird that it like that is the Nebraska sound. Like there's not like a
- 20:08huge country artist from here that I write. That's that's like when I think
- 20:12of probably the artists that Nebraskans are, Nebraskans are listening to most probably country,
- 20:19right, and it's weird to think that that's not the kind of artist
- 20:22that's the most known coming out of Nebraska. Are there. It's just not
- 20:26red enough. I guess, I don't know, they got down just your
- 20:33stadiums are red man. Yeah, I love country though, but yeah,
- 20:37I don't know. Nebraska is weird. It is weird. It really is,
- 20:42because it's it's a it's it's a bigger state than most people would imagine,
- 20:47right, I mean yeah, like I live in a city that has
- 20:49a you know, like ten Starbucks, so you know, like we're we're
- 20:55not uneducated or like, you know, completely fucking like a lot of people
- 21:00think, I'm sorry, that is that is that is the quote of the
- 21:03night with ten Starbucks. Yeah, yeah, fuck off, I live in
- 21:08a city with ten Starbucks. But you know what I mean, Like Nebraska
- 21:15is big er than people think. But yeah, I don't know, it's
- 21:21a weird place. It is. People like being comfortable in Nebraska, and
- 21:25I think that's uh a blessing and a curse. And I think a lot
- 21:30of bands like we'll start getting some some push and then they just love the
- 21:37comfort over the you know, the discomfort and of the road. And I
- 21:41get it. I still I'm like thirty one, still doing this band stuff,
- 21:45and I uh, every once so while I'm like, man, this
- 21:49sucks, like we could totally just not do this and it would be great,
- 21:55But you know, then there's this other part of me that's like fucking
- 22:00like I'm already this far deep, let's go. Yeah, there must be
- 22:06something even more beyond that. I mean, it takes a lot of energy
- 22:08and time and effort and to be in a band, and so like there
- 22:12must be something really fulfilling about being in a band, even at this age.
- 22:17And uh, yeah, I'm curious what that is for you, Like
- 22:19what what's the itch that's being scratched by being in Salt Creek for you?
- 22:23You know, when when you find that uh special something you know? No,
- 22:29I don't know, um, transpar you are you talking about narcissism?
- 22:33Dude, I think so, um, But I don't know. I just
- 22:37I like writing music and hanging out with my friends, and tooth and nail
- 22:41made me able to record for free and uh like put out records, so
- 22:47I uh, I just enjoy the process. I playing live is cool,
- 22:52but yeah, I just I like the hangs a lot and uh like playing
- 23:00guitar. So yeah, it's kind of it's kind of like I don't know
- 23:03if you did any sports in high school or anything like that, but it's
- 23:07almost like the saying of like, yeah, I really liked playing football in
- 23:11high school, but I liked the bus rides more. Yeah, basically,
- 23:17I mean I feel like that's like pretty clol the friends we made along the
- 23:19way. I like to think of it as like stock car racing, Like
- 23:23those fools spend like, you know, twenty Nebraska, like the dirt track
- 23:30racing. Those fools spend so much money on their car and then uh,
- 23:34you know, like they running around the track for fifteen twenty minutes and they
- 23:41spend all this money to do that one thing. But dude, they're they're
- 23:44just they're about the beers and the dugout, you know, like, yeah,
- 23:48they love the community and they love the hangs and the meeting people along
- 23:52the way. So yeah, man, and are you big into like like
- 23:56stock car and stuff like that. No, but I used to go when
- 24:00I was a kid. Uh, and I still go every once in a
- 24:03while because I think it's just sick that, you know, it's like these
- 24:07guys that are literally the same as me, that are just like jumping in
- 24:11a car and gassing it. You know, Yeah, it's a pretty badass.
- 24:15But I think that is that that is kind of like an Upper Midwest
- 24:19or Great Planes kind of thing. Is like the romanticism even around like the
- 24:23sound on Sunday nights of the stock car races that you can hear all the
- 24:29way across town. Do you know that feeling it's it's like rev Yeah.
- 24:34Yeah, man, it's a thing. Dude, getting that dirt like just
- 24:38shoved in your face. You know, when the cars are spinning around the
- 24:41track. It's just sick, dude, smelly. I don't know. I
- 24:45still like a fanboy over like some of the people I used to see when
- 24:49I was a kid, Like they'd come into like the Casey's and I'd be
- 24:52at Casey's gas station and yeah, I'd be like, dude, that's that's
- 24:56so and so. But and they all had the same shirt design. Yeah,
- 25:00that'sh it sick. Though it is sick, it's pretty sick. It
- 25:03needs to be like like Salt Critic's next band shirt. There you go.
- 25:07Yeah, I feel like that's more of an Aaron GLISPI thing, like he
- 25:11really likes to look like he's really into Nascar, so we'll let him have
- 25:15it. But here, do you do you think he actually really likes Nascar?
- 25:21Dude, I don't know what I mean. He is from the South.
- 25:22He probably is pretty. I mean, he probably is pretty, like
- 25:26you know, pretty Southern in that way. But does he really like Nascar?
- 25:30I bet he does. Like he's no phony, Uh, he's he's
- 25:36pretty exactly what he uh, you know, puts out into the world.
- 25:40So I think he probably likes Nascar. I bet he does. Yeah,
- 25:45you can't with how much he loves Nascar, you know, totally, that
- 25:48made no sense. Colin and I have talked about this before, where the
- 25:56South in particular, especially within the solid State tooth and Nail world, there
- 26:00were so many bands coming out of the South that were fucking incredible bands under
- 26:06Oath, Norma Jeane, the Chariot, Mainlands and Sons of Sons of Disaster.
- 26:11You know, all these bands are coming out of the South, and
- 26:14we've we kind of had this theory that, you know, there's something about
- 26:17being in the South that creates this anks and this artistry that's unmatched and unparalleled
- 26:23and creates this really great music that's really great heavy music. I'm curious,
- 26:26like, do you think there's something about living in Nebraska that creates the sound
- 26:32for you guys and kind of the sound that you guys have ended up falling
- 26:36into. Um, I definitely think so. I think we all have different
- 26:41uh, things we've like listened to or been around or you know, most
- 26:48of us are from small towns, so we uh, you know, wore
- 26:52the Black Sheep of Hey, somebody should start our small towns. So it's
- 26:59only fitting that it would cause that. But yeah, it is interesting seeing
- 27:04how many bands from that world were from the South, and uh, you
- 27:08know, I always think it's probably because what's that dude from Furnace Fest that
- 27:14you guys just interviewed John? Yeah, like he he was from uh is
- 27:19it Alabama, I don't know, somewhere in the South. But I feel
- 27:25like he probably had all these bands surrounding him that are super good, kind
- 27:29of like the you know, the Saddle Creek thing, all the all the
- 27:33homies you know, ended up blowing up to and you know, ended up
- 27:37making a successful career out of music because uh, you know, Connor like
- 27:41spreaded his wings and you know it's kind of sick thing. But yeah,
- 27:48yeah, man, I'm about it. Though. Do you think that there's
- 27:52um that there's a more developed Nebraska sound coming leading the way. I don't
- 28:02think we're leading any of the current bands along the way. There's some younger
- 28:07bands that I feel like are like, oh, these guys are kind of
- 28:11like loud rock, like like loud grunge rock, like we fuck with that,
- 28:15like yeah, you know, and are kind of going that realm.
- 28:18But I don't know, we'll see. I I also think in this world,
- 28:26like you know, with technology, people can be whatever they want to
- 28:30be being like get influenced with whatever they you know, run into a lot
- 28:34easier. So Um, there's a lot of cool indie bands coming from Nebraska.
- 28:40Like one of my co workers plays in a really good ska band,
- 28:42so Um, which is only fitting for Nebraska. But oh wow, yeah,
- 28:51but is that the name of the band. No, it's twenties,
- 28:55so yeah, I'm i'm um. You guys should call yourself. If you
- 29:02start a sky band, it should be called the Nebraska Tones. I think
- 29:07they tried to do a Nebraska office. So you have to do something with
- 29:14that brandy like that. That's just perfect branding. I mean, just make
- 29:17something out of it, make it a slogan, make it a festival,
- 29:18make it something because it's just there, like it's there for the taking.
- 29:23That is true. Even a T shirt, you know, like, let's
- 29:26just go with the T shirt for now. But I don't. Yeah,
- 29:30I love it. Let's talk about you know, potential new music on the
- 29:34horizons. You know, you guys last album which was great, by the
- 29:37way, twenty twenty one, so last year. We're finishing up twenty twenty
- 29:42two now as we're recording anything that we could maybe expect here in the future
- 29:48maybe next year. Uh yeah. We currently have I think fifteen songs written.
- 29:55We are working with Jeremy Worst he's our guitar play there and recording the
- 30:03record, but we're also working with I don't know if y'all know, well,
- 30:07you guys are South Dakodin's Ryan Latrue on some producing and some like songwriting
- 30:15help too. So just kind of getting some outside perspective because now that Jeremy's
- 30:21like full time with us, we were like, okay, like we can't
- 30:25just you know, self combust in this thing. So yeah, we got
- 30:30some outside perspective. We officially met him on that Norma Jean tour and ended
- 30:34up clicking really well. So I'm excited to go write some songs and I
- 30:40think we're most likely going to record the first part of the year, so
- 30:45I'm hopeful. I don't know if he'll come out next year, but it's
- 30:48exciting. I'm excited to write recording new music. Chase is putting out a
- 30:52solo song in two weeks, so we haven't announced that yet. But and
- 30:57what's his solo project called. It's just Chase Thompson. So Thompson, all
- 31:02right, Yeah, it's just a fun little thing. But yeah, it's
- 31:07very Nebraskan. So it's like, uh like Lifehouse and uh country, that's
- 31:14like alternative indie country. So it's good. Yeah, love it, love
- 31:18it. What if they're gonna have skits around it? Dude, I hope.
- 31:22So do you know about the Lifehouse skit? Oh? But I was
- 31:26going to act like I did so Oh it's yeah, just type in just
- 31:30like on YouTube, go type in Lifehouse skit and it's a it's a whole
- 31:34thing that Cullen and I grew up with. Yeah, is it the band
- 31:40or is it like a church thing? No, it's a church thing.
- 31:42And the band's not playing. It's like that, really, the band's not
- 31:48in it. It's just they're playing. They're using uh, one of the
- 31:52life House tracks, and there's a whole skits, a church skit involved in
- 31:56it, and like every church did it. It's pretty it's oh shit,
- 32:01dude, Yeah, I know what I'm talking about. The one where the
- 32:06girl like bakes like she's drinking and then like gets really into like self absorbed,
- 32:10you know, yeah, and like gets really into drugs and shit and
- 32:15then at the end, like Jesus blocks all that shit. Yeah, dude,
- 32:17that one is so funny. I didn't know that was still a Lifehouse
- 32:22song. I tweeted about it once and it like was sort of doing numbers
- 32:28and supposedly a guy who used to tour with the band. I don't think
- 32:31he was a full time member, but supposedly like played violin or something in
- 32:35the band. He he like replied and was like, wait, this is
- 32:37a thing. I've never heard about this before. And I'm like, yeah,
- 32:42like look this up and this has millions of views and people know about
- 32:45it. It's it's a thing. And he's like, that's not at all
- 32:47what that song is about. And I'm like, yeah, i'd probably,
- 32:51I would imagine. So I definitely so now watching this, I don't know
- 32:54if yeah, listeners are probably like, yo, like what is this?
- 33:00But I can't remember what I played? Am I the money? Yeh?
- 33:06I definitely re enacted this multiple times for our church. So are you serious?
- 33:09Yeah, because I remember them. Yeah, like there's that purple,
- 33:14the purple. Uh guy, dude, sorry, I'm I'm overly watching this,
- 33:20but I definitely think I was the self sabotaging guy with the knife like
- 33:24cut yourself, you know. But uh, you know, but big old
- 33:30JC covered it, so that's right for good, that's true. Yeah.
- 33:36Are we ready for top five? Yeah? Yo? Yeah, yeah all
- 33:42right. My My top record I think of all time is Incubus Morning View.
- 33:47Um. Wow, we're most listened at least that record. My cousins
- 33:52got me into that band, uh because they would uh burm MP three E
- 34:00and uh yeah, let me let me drum while they got stoned at their
- 34:05house when I was in like sixth grade. It's pretty sick. I didn't
- 34:07know they're getting stoned at that time. But speaking you guys, you guys
- 34:12have some new merch that that has to kind of do with that, don't
- 34:15you. I don't know, man, I don't know what you're talking about.
- 34:17So we don't have any weak grinders or anything. Don't tell you know.
- 34:22I don't tell my parents. Uh but yeah, that records. I
- 34:25just don't tell our governor in South Dakota. That's thang for real. Uh
- 34:35Uh. I also put on my list The Forecast, which they're from Piora,
- 34:40Illinois, Illinois. I don't know why I said that's a weird uh.
- 34:45They I saw them on six six h six. It was my first
- 34:51band that was like an actual touring band, and they were signed the Victory
- 34:57at the time. But yeah, that record, I feel like, is
- 35:00a very good Midwest rock record. It's like a little emo, but like
- 35:06mostly just like a good just good songs. Um. But yeah, I've
- 35:10seen them every time they've came, even you know, five hours close.
- 35:15So I love that band, The Forecast, The Forecast. I don't know
- 35:20if I know of them. They're dope. Um. My top three would
- 35:28be have Heart Songs, scream at the Sun o. Um, it's just
- 35:32a good record. Uh, it's loud. I feel like, I don't
- 35:37know, I don't have really much to stay. I was straight edge for
- 35:40a long time until like three months ago, and now I'm making grinders.
- 35:47Dude, don't tell my parents. Uh, but uh, yeah, that
- 35:52record was sick. I feel like that band was a very pivotal band for
- 35:57a lot of people. So yeah, we just we just saw fiddle Head
- 36:01at Furnace Fast, and I honestly like fiddle Head more than Have Heart,
- 36:07but I mean it's hard not to just absolutely love Have Heart and what they
- 36:10were able to do for that scene. Yeah, I think if fiddle Head
- 36:14would have came out when that record came out, I would have just like
- 36:19not cared at all. But if they both came out now, I would
- 36:22care only about fiddle Head. So that sounds really mean, but you know
- 36:27what I mean. So that's your third one, right, Yeah, So
- 36:31fourth is tap Roots Gift Mike same cousins that let me play drums. They
- 36:42really like tap Root and burnt me off a CD of all their records,
- 36:45and I really like that band. I actually got to see them on there.
- 36:51I think it was a ten year anniversary of that record, and it
- 36:53was really cool. But I don't think they're still playing anymore. But yeah,
- 36:58they I don't know, they're just a cool new metal band. But
- 37:00yeah, yeah, yeah, very one of the ogs there. Yeah,
- 37:06they're super unique. I mean that record after Gift was like Blue Sky research.
- 37:12They went with the what Billy Corgan like produced it and they just,
- 37:16I don't know, they were like super experimental with it, and they like,
- 37:20I don't think they ever cared if they were going to be the biggest
- 37:22band. They just want to make cool ass music. So I still back
- 37:27that. But yeah, my fifth record is Counting Crows Recovering the Satellites.
- 37:34Really, yeah, I'm I'm I'm not really into obviously a lot of email
- 37:38music, but yeah, Counting Crows is one of my favorite bands of all
- 37:43time. But that record in general is just flawless. So I would not
- 37:47have guessed that out of you, I'll be honest, thanks. I would
- 37:51have wore the Counting Crows. I have a hat for that record, so
- 37:54I could have worn that and you would have been like, oh, okay,
- 37:58that makes sense. But mister Jones might be one of the most like
- 38:01infectious songs, Like it's just hard not to absolutely love that song. Yeah,
- 38:08our guitar player and I like to go back of if Recovering the Satellites
- 38:15or is it Desert Life, like which record is better? And I don't
- 38:20know. It's a long, long drawn out conversation, but yeah, I
- 38:27can't imagine there's a lot of people having that conversation anymore. Dude, just
- 38:30Salt Creek. Yeah, yeah, I think now They're just known as the
- 38:36band that was, you know, the nineties soundtrack band like so much stress.
- 38:43So I mean it's it's a time literally the sound is such a time
- 38:45capsule of the nineties for sure. Yeah, but it's sick they're still Dreads
- 38:52involved, Dude, I are they still even doing I don't know anything,
- 38:58but let's forgive Dreads. But yeah, yeah, you know, I kind
- 39:04of hear a little bit of those influences in Salt Creek. You know,
- 39:08you get, you know, some of the heavier stuff like you mentioned with
- 39:12some of the new metal, but then yeah, you kind of get this
- 39:14like really good like songwriter type of music with like Counting Crows and like you
- 39:20kind of get all of that in Salt Creek. And so I think that's
- 39:22what's really cool about your sound is you're getting some of that heavier stuff and
- 39:27you're really getting the really good indie songwriter stuff too at the same time.
- 39:30Damn thanks man, I agree. This is plug time? Are you ready
- 39:37for plugs? What do you got? So A lot of people don't know
- 39:42this about me, but I own King State Coffee in Tampa Bay, Florida.
- 39:46It's a Tampa Bay based or Tampa based coffee roaster, beer brewer,
- 39:54beer bar, wine bar, restaurant, and third Wave coffee shop. Wow,
- 40:00that's all. That's a great elevator pitch. Thank you. You know
- 40:04so, I'm very curious how did you come about this? I mean you're
- 40:07you're from Lick in Nebraska. Yeah, and you you decided to open a
- 40:13coffee shop, brewery place in in uh in Tampa, Florida. I mean
- 40:16yeah, I mean I started the band under Oath. Oh, I think
- 40:20I forgot That's how I know you. That's I remember. Now, that's
- 40:25like a pretty like underground band, like only a few people heard of them,
- 40:29right, not as underground as Salt Creek, let's be real here,
- 40:32But yeah, my parents don't know about them, that's for damn sure.
- 40:37And what what did? What do you do in that band? Like something
- 40:39like programming? Yeah? So I realized that, uh, this bit is
- 40:46never gonna work because we thought Chris uh from under Oath owned the coffee shop,
- 40:54but Tim owns the coffee shop. Yeah, and yeah, and you're
- 41:01and you're Chris, I'm Chris. Oh you're Chris from under Oath. I'm
- 41:07Chris from under Oath Yeah what Yeah? And I'm also the guy. I'm
- 41:14also the guy in the Lifehouse Everything skit that's remastered in high quality. Um,
- 41:20there should be a link in the bio if you guys want to put
- 41:22that in there, maybe on your link tree. Yeah, um yeah,
- 41:25it's pretty sick, are you? Are you still like auditioning for other you
- 41:30know, if other churches are still doing the Lifehouse skit that like, Hey,
- 41:32like, I know how to play this part. Just hire me and
- 41:36I can do it. No, man, I'm making money off that royalties.
- 41:38There's five point nine million views on that thing thirteen years plus. Church
- 41:45has got plenty of money already, so yeah, they got to give that
- 41:49to the poor. Yeah. Do you think that guy was a youth pastor?
- 41:51I still cannot tell what he was doing, but one chance he was.
- 41:58There is no way he wasn't. Yeah, Oh I totally agree.
- 42:01You see that? You go? Yeah? Is there a soul patch involved
- 42:06too? Dude? Probably? I don't know. He looks unshaved, but
- 42:12that's me. You are a man of many faces and many talents. Yeah,
- 42:19I could. I could come up with some other things that I did
- 42:21that I did. You must love Mayo then, right, if you're if
- 42:23you're actually Chris from Under Oath you have to like or if if you if
- 42:30you're Nate from under Oath, you must love mayonnaise? Is that a thing?
- 42:37May Oh, it's a thing. They say that, Oh, it's
- 42:42a thing. You clearly did not watch the Under Oath documentary that you said
- 42:45you did. Dude, it's been I was I was like fifteen when that
- 42:50thing came out. No, maybe seventeen, but I was. I was
- 42:52ten, and I still remember how much like he would literally eat mayo out
- 42:58of the jar, just spoonfuls male naise. Damn, I need to rewatch
- 43:05I guess. I'm sure it's on YouTube at this point. How do you
- 43:07not remember this one tiny little like bit that they were doing in a documentary
- 43:13you watched twelve fourteen fifteen litre twenty years ago. Yeah, you know,
- 43:17I just remember there was some like milk gallanch challenge or something. Okay,
- 43:22I was just about to I was literally just about to point this out.
- 43:24So I remember, for the first time ever watching this documentary. I was
- 43:30at home and my parents got me this DVD, you know, because it
- 43:34was like the special edition for their only Chasing Safety, and I'm starting to
- 43:37watch it. My parents are kind of like coming in and the living room
- 43:42to you know, check on me and everything. And they come into the
- 43:45room at the point that they start doing the Gallon challenge, and my mom
- 43:49is like, what's going on? What is this? This is not Christian,
- 43:52We're turning this off. And I was like trying to explain to them,
- 43:55like what was going on. And anyway, I almost was like the
- 44:00fact that they could sing about Jesus, that still doesn't make him a Christian
- 44:04man. They have to not do the gallons challenge to prove that they were
- 44:07a Christian band. That is a church thing, I think. And then
- 44:08we did it at Youth two weeks later. Yeah exactly. I don't know
- 44:14where, but you know it's a verse. It's definitely a yeah, yeah,
- 44:17goat's milk. It's in the verse. So I know this is going
- 44:22off topic, but did y'all have any really screwed up food challenges when you're
- 44:27a kid. There was when I was in high school, in like late
- 44:30middle school. Um, there was the mcdoubell challenge where you had to eat
- 44:34ten mcdoubel's in one sitting, um, which is now kind of expensive,
- 44:38but then it was like ten bucks, like you just one kid would try
- 44:42every Friday. I cut recreationally with Colin. Didn't even have to get challenged
- 44:46to do that. He just would do that, like, Oh I'm hungry
- 44:51for real, dude, how many I want to I want to do the
- 44:53calendar? I got a calculator right here. Okay, so you want to
- 44:57hear a real crazy story about some like food challenge just that that I did
- 45:00never actually get challenged to. I just said I was gonna do it.
- 45:04Tacer Johns. You guys got Tacker Johns down in. Oh yeah, Tacer
- 45:07Johns is the jam. Yeah. Uh yeah, well I mean for Midwest,
- 45:13I mean, yes, yeah, because we're middle of the Yeah.
- 45:16For the bit this is this part actually is not a bit, though I
- 45:21was. I was on a baseball team and after our game that we won,
- 45:27I challenged myself to eat two six packet of pounds, which is like
- 45:31twelve tacos, and two pounds of potato alais, which are like ten thousand
- 45:39milligrams of sodium each, and then I had to drink you know, the
- 45:43two sixty four on sodas after that, like one one six pack in a
- 45:47pound is made for what like a family of three or four typically. Yeah,
- 45:52I was gonna see how many calories that was, because that might be
- 45:55crazier than uh than the sodium. Yeah, well, so I ate both
- 46:04of them. I did it. I did it, And on the bus
- 46:07ride home, I'm feeling like dog water. And I get home and I
- 46:13try to go to sleep, and I can't go to sleep because my belly's
- 46:15a rumbling. And at like five in the morning, I finally like stir
- 46:21out of bed and I like vomit all over the floor, and all over
- 46:28the floor that my parents had just recarpeted that day. And I wake my
- 46:38dad as like, Dad, I don't feel good and I just vomited all
- 46:42over the floor. He's like sort of a bitch, and he gets up
- 46:46and he grabs the dust pan and he comes in and he like tries to
- 46:50like clean it up because I quite I quite literally could not even like pull
- 46:53myself out of bed anymore. I was like so like weak from this.
- 46:59And it broke the fucking dust pan. There was that much. Yeah,
- 47:06that's like that's a lot of food. That's a lot of weight of food.
- 47:13Bro. I gotta tell you something, though, Um I did the
- 47:16math. Yeah, it's only it's I thought it was gonna be a lot
- 47:20more calories. Let's be real here, Okay, it's only it's only about
- 47:23thirty five hundred to four thousand tops. Okay, so which is not that's
- 47:29like two days of eating in one stay, which is still really a lot
- 47:34scary. But uh, the ten mcdouble is about the same, But I
- 47:40think the sodium level on your end is way more screwed up. And also
- 47:45like the weight of that is wow. Also, anyone who's had like potato
- 47:51alays knows the grease on that stuff is like it's like deadly. Yeah,
- 47:55like the grease on those potato alays will that will that will clean you right
- 48:00out gut? Did you ever think about the years you're deducting from your life
- 48:04when you ate that? I really if if uh you know, if you
- 48:08do go to heaven? Uh, like I hope there's like a like kind
- 48:14of a quota. Like there's like an accountant that's like, hey, you
- 48:17remember that thing I did when I was sixteen or fourteen? Like how many
- 48:22years did that pull off my life? Be real? And he's like,
- 48:24yo, thirty five days? You know? So what was that moment for
- 48:30you where dude, we wish you would have thought about how many days it
- 48:35took off your life on this. Uh. We did a tour in June
- 48:39to La and back and we had a day off in Vegas and we all
- 48:45went to the buffet and we didn't eat the um before that, and then
- 48:50we didn't eat after. So we were like, that's what screws up.
- 48:52Yeah, we had a we had an eighteen hour drive in two days and
- 48:58we were like, man, we're gonna We're gonna terrorize this place. So
- 49:01we hit it and then I I don't think I've ever felt that bad because
- 49:06it hurt to walk to the car. Yeah, it was. It was
- 49:08very painful. Not not that painful, but it was definitely taking years off
- 49:15my life, or like, you know, maybe weeks off my life,
- 49:17but weeks. Holy yeah, maybe maybe a couple of days. I don't
- 49:21know. I'm no scientists, but I hope you got it. Yeah.
- 49:28Yeah. Basically, what I've I think anybody should learn is to you know,
- 49:32eat with moderation. Yeah, you know, eat healthy. It's not
- 49:37a bad idea. I know, I know, I'm a big dude,
- 49:39but let's go baby, man. Like Pizza Range Buffet's that was like my
- 49:45middle school in high school, like experience so good. What is the close
- 49:51one yanked in for y'all? Or no Watertown then blast dude. Ye love
- 49:58that. Like any city that like is over two thousand people in South Dakota
- 50:02probably is going to have a pizza Ranch. And actually where I went to
- 50:08colleges where Pizza Ranch is headquartered, so like I got the like premiere Pizza
- 50:13Ranch when I was in college. It was awesome. Yeah, yeah,
- 50:15I'm you're spoiled. I was really spoiled that cactus bread Man, that cactus.
- 50:21I haven't been there in like probably six years, but you know it
- 50:25hurts every time. I will, Like if I was touring in the Midwest,
- 50:30I would hit it up every day, Like I mean, it's it's
- 50:32like decently cheap, and again you can eat like as much, like don't
- 50:36eat anything else the rest of the day. Like, just eat Pizza Ranch
- 50:39every day, don't eat anything else, and you're gonna be totally fulfilled in
- 50:44life. This is really weird to hear from you, Mason. I'm our
- 50:49bands super bougie and we just eat like really fancy places. Uh at this
- 50:54one. I mean, we're all older and have jobs and stuff. So
- 50:58it's easier than like our college band where we would eat you know, CC's
- 51:04buffet for every you know, for one meal and then call it. But
- 51:08that will take days off. For the price of a five dollars foot long,
- 51:12you can have all the food you want CC's buffet. I feel like
- 51:16this is just one really bad pitch for you know everything for your coffee shop
- 51:22and brewery shop in Tampa Bay, Florida. Yeah, they should definitely have
- 51:27a buffet. I'll pitch that. I'm gonna they definitely have like a contact
- 51:31on King State, So yeah, you're gonna have to have a meeting of
- 51:35the board members once again. I'm just gonna send it through the contact and
- 51:39I'm doing right now. Nathan from Salt Creek, Nathan at Salt Creek,
- 51:47you should have it. He's actually doing it. This is great. I
- 51:53just said Nathan from Salt Creek, and all that it says is you should
- 51:57have a buffet. So, you know, at one point Chipotle had a
- 52:04whole thing for touring bands. I don't know if they do that anymore,
- 52:07but that would have been a fucking great deal. They don't, but we
- 52:10still call them anyway because we, uh, every once in a while we'll
- 52:14have a little little luck. But and you can still get you can still
- 52:19get any coali. Yeah. I love that they're they're good at that.
- 52:23They serve a lot of good at coal either. Yeo, Okay, did
- 52:25did y'all have a I don't know why I got a Southern accent. Now,
- 52:31you guys have a USA steak buffet in South Dakota, I don't think.
- 52:37Oh man, it's basically our pizza ranch. We have pizza ranch now,
- 52:40but uh, it was basically the same as pizza ranch, but instead
- 52:45of pizza, they had steak. But it was like bad steaks. So
- 52:49I don't know how much matter. It's like a bad gold Golden Corral.
- 52:52Yeah, a batter is Golden Corral? A buffet? Yeah? Have you've
- 53:00never been to Golden Crown Mason, Not that I know of. I thought
- 53:04we used to go for track trips all the time in high school. I
- 53:07don't remember that we would for for high school or for basketball trips. When
- 53:10we would go to Rapid City, we would stop in the pizza ranch in
- 53:15Fort Pier, not Pier, but in Fort Pierre, like right next to
- 53:19that strip club. Yeah, hop sketch, Yeah, No, the non
- 53:22fancy pier that was. That was my first South Dakota show was in Pier,
- 53:28South Dakota. It was like an automotive shop. So what Jesse Kepford
- 53:35from Swing Low booked us, So oh yeah, yeah, yeah, dude
- 53:40in Pier, South Dakota at an automotive shop. That is the most diy
- 53:45hardcore thing you could literally imagine. Yeah, but we were I was playing
- 53:51a post rock band at that time, so I was what, dudas and
- 53:54are huge post rock fans. It's so weird. I was just looking at
- 53:59my rap. I don't have Spotify, but I have YouTube, and I
- 54:01was like, hey, I'm my YouTube YouTube wrapped deal. My number one
- 54:07most listened to band for like the ninth year in a row now is Maguay.
- 54:10Oh wow, I'm gonna be real here. I think every post rock
- 54:15band just doesn't have a friend that's good at singing, and I don't care
- 54:22if anybody doesn't check out my band because of that. Explosions in the Sky
- 54:25started out with one of those guys singing and then they realize, no,
- 54:29we're not doing that, so they just decided to do instrumental stuff. Yeah,
- 54:34they get cool pedal boards. Cool shoes, They get a guitar cab
- 54:37that looks like a coffee table, and then dude races. They don't even
- 54:43have to try, they just have to do the little strummy thing. He's
- 54:45a little trembli picking. So I don't know that's my my hot take,
- 54:52but I know a lot of people that probably listen to your podcasts are gonna
- 54:57not fuck with that take. But yeah, that's fine. I think if
- 55:00every post rock band got a vocalist that was good, it'd all be a
- 55:06lot better off. Oh interesting, maybe well, like the girls post rock
- 55:12bands out there that are looking for a singer, I would love to join
- 55:15your band. Yeah, I can't do anything else. There's your call,
- 55:20uh Nate. I think at one point I actually saw you guys live.
- 55:23I don't remember exactly, but there is a a record slash coffee shop in
- 55:30Saint Paul called Cadence, which is one of my favorite places great record selection.
- 55:36I saw. I think it was with you guys Comrades and maybe like
- 55:39Household, yeah or Unturned, I can't remember. I don't remember who all,
- 55:45but I definitely like I came to see Comrades because I love that band.
- 55:49Good friends with those folks, and then I'm pretty sure you guys were
- 55:52playing too. Yeah, we definitely played that. I also we played Sue
- 55:55Falls. You didn't come out to see us. What the heck? Man?
- 55:59What most serious? Uh? This was like five years ago, so
- 56:02yeah, yeah, yeah, you just weren't on our radar yet, had
- 56:07no idea. Yeah, and honestly, with a name like Salt Creek,
- 56:08I probably would have thought you were just like another like one of those like
- 56:12dowm a dozen like folk rock bands. Yeah, pretty much we are,
- 56:15which is based on all that ever plays and Sue Falls. Yeah, dude,
- 56:20Also we probably were. I think we played that Comrades who were at
- 56:23icon Um with another like folk indie artists. So oh no, no,
- 56:29no I was there. Oh it would have It would have been like five
- 56:32years ago. Yeah, yeah, no, it's with that one dude.
- 56:36He's really good. It was actually like right around this time. I was
- 56:39at a wedding and um, I went over because like there was a wedding
- 56:45right next door of the icon Lounge, and I walked over because I knew
- 56:49Comrades was playing that night. I bought some Comrades merch. I brought it
- 56:52back over to the wedding because I couldn't obviously leave the wedding. It's like
- 56:57some of my best friends. But yeah, that's like, that's like this
- 57:00weekend five years ago. That's a trip. Rest in peace. Comrades true,
- 57:05Yeah, unbelievable band. I like, I probably have more comrades merched
- 57:08than probably any other band. And they're not my favorite band, but I
- 57:12just have a ship ton of their stuff because I saw him so much.
- 57:15Yeah, that band just toured constantly. Uh. Dee Pop also has a
- 57:20lot of their merch, so uh it's doing well there. That's awesome.
- 57:25Uh, dude, Nate, Nathan, you're You're Nathan not Nate right close
- 57:30enough, Nathan, it's wonderful to have you. You're a boss, You're
- 57:35a gem, your Nebraska's finest Nebraska. Hey, thanks for having me.
- 57:44This was fun. It was fun. We'll hang out against I'm gonna hit
- 57:47you all up. We only live like five hours away. Yeah, dude,
- 57:50we should like meet up in at a show in like Omaha or something
- 57:53like that. But yeah, no, I think I think meeting like somewhere
- 57:55in the in the middle of an Omaha would be great. I'm here for
- 57:59that. Also, I think we're I mean definitely playing souper Balls this next
- 58:05year. So I'll see you guys no matter what. So hell yeah,
- 58:09I'll make you guys a fantastic little meal here at my my little farm.
- 58:14Oh you got a farm that's sick, Yeah, it'll be. You can
- 58:17you can literally eat my pigs and my chickens and my my veggians from my
- 58:22guys. That's beautiful.